ROXY: hay lookROXY: its jake stuffed in a blue windsockROXY: hehehehJOHN: huh?ROXY: n/mROXY: so what kind of hot god tier trix can you teach meJOHN: tricks...JOHN: i guess i don't know any actual TRICKS per se, aside from how to use some of my powers.JOHN: but i don't know if the same tricks apply to using your powers...ROXY: u said u could help thoJOHN: i said MAYBE i could!JOHN: i dunno, i was just throwing it out there.JOHN: like, maybe if i told you about some of the experiences i had when i was learning to do my windy stuff, you might have some kind of... voidey epiphany?ROXY: a voidey epiphanyJOHN: yes.ROXY: k thenROXY: im all ears johnny windsockROXY: let loose ur wisdom whilst i rake in the epiphaniesJOHN: ok, um,JOHN: i've noticed whenever i learn to do new things with my powers, it's usually in response to something. like something important that has to be done.JOHN: so why are you trying to make this spike ball?JOHN: and how important does it feel to you?ROXY: well at first i was mainly tryin to make it because dog girl was forcing me toROXY: but now i think i keep trying because im gettin obsessed with making this dumb spikeball and PO'd that i cant do itJOHN: i see.JOHN: what actually IS this spike ball, if you don't mind my asking?ROXY: its an alien eggROXY: 4 tha trollsROXY: to hatch em all back to lifeROXY: but only to be ruled by an evil witch so its gonna be shitty for themROXY: so yeah its kind of an important thingROXY: but at the same time it would probably be terrible if i actually made it so...JOHN: then maybe the fact that you're conflicted about it is why you're having trouble?ROXY: yeh maybeJOHN: if you think it's important to make, but don't want to give it to the bad guys, why don't you just...JOHN: break out of jail?JOHN: then you could try to make the egg at your own discretion, and use it however you think is best.ROXY: idkROXY: i broke outta here once already and the fuckin witch just nabbed me againROXY: and that was BEFORE she recruited jakes omnipotent goofball grandma to zap me back here the moment i step outsideJOHN: yeah. it is a tricky situation with grimbark jade on the loose, that's for sure.JOHN: but i've been managing to evade her.JOHN: i just swoosh the breeze around to hide my scent, and dissolve into wind and fly away if she finds me.JOHN: maybe you could do something like that too?JOHN: it seems to me if anyone should be able to avoid detection using their powers, it would be a void player.JOHN: get it? a void... as in, avoid?JOHN: heh.ROXY: that is legit sound reasoning yoROXY: + a way lame pun 2 bootROXY: but remember how we were just talkin about the fact that when it comes to god tier shit i dont know what the eff im doin??JOHN: oh.JOHN: right.

So what do we call this pause? I've been batting ideas around all day. We could go with the obvious choice, the MINIGIGAPAUSE. Or maybe, MEGAPAUSE 2: BACK IN THE MEGASADDLE. Or if that makes too much sense, we could always settle on the MICROTERAPAUSE. As you can see, there are so many incredibly intelligent and meaningful things we could call this pause. Deciding how to refer to the pause is an exercise that I will leave to the reader. Feel free to discuss the matter with friends. Or strangers. Anyone who will listen really. If they start to run away, I strongly recommend you chase them.

Why don't we say that A665 begins on 4/13. That's a fun number that we all can get excited about. I have a lot of catch-up work to do between now and then. Not the least of which is drawing the actual content to be posted. But also a lot of gamedev work. Game production is rolling pretty hot right now. Stuff is being churned out almost faster than I can keep track of. Did I mention? I accidentally started running a game studio a little while ago. Whoops, sorry about that. There are all these people being paid to make things happen, and I have to be like "Yeah, keep doing that stuff, everybody." It's getting pretty easy to lose track of how many people work for What Pumpkin. My last estimate was somewhere between 30 and 1000. The true figure is a very frisky moving target.

A6A6A5, a.k.a. Caliborn's Masterpiece, is actually done. It's probably better to hold off posting it until 4/13, when more content will soon follow aftewards. I am sure pausing on that note for months would mess with your head a lot more than the note we're already pausing on. I sometimes feel I have at least a modest responsibility to manage your sanity. It'll be tough sitting on this content though. Tougher than sitting on all of A664 for the better part of a year. I don't think it is out of line to describe it as the best material this website will ever exhibit. It will be all down hill from there, in every direction. Even up.

Speaking of sanity management, way back when, I was pretty on the fence about posting A664 spaced out over months like I did, vs. all at once. Doing the latter in hindsight probably would have been a fucked up thing to do to the internet though. The GAME OVER fallout alone was a bit much as it was. Including it in tandem with the rest of it? Not sure what to make of that. Let's review the CONTENT CRUSH that would have entailed. Bad Anime -> Game Over -> Sadstuck -> Lowas Quest -> 100 retconned panels of oil -> A bunch of other shit -> Punky Serket -> Fantroll Storytime -> 8 password pages -> The Kiss On Horse Mountain -> and finally -> The Punchline. You know, that's an awful lot of baloney to publish. I think the fell-swoop reaction to all that would have been quite a thing to behold, but also, perhaps an irresponsible thing to do to a hapless fanbase after a year in hibernation. I'm told that in 2015, young people are heavily susceptible to "the feels", and trifling with those forces could be injurious to their future development. Wait, did that just sound like something your grandpa would say? Mother fuck, where did I put my cane. Oh right, I snapped it in half from shaking it at the sky.

I may have been in the process of making a point there, but we're going to have to pick this up another time. The comic isn't going to pause itself!!!

Over the last couple months, I have been surreptitiously collapsing several update horses into single, bigger horses. This means A6A6I4 is going to end a little sooner than previously advertised. Same total page count, but finishing sooner. Please consult the important horse calendar below.

So what happens when A6A6I4 is done? I'm not quite sure yet. I'm still working on everything that comes after that. I've written it mostly, but haven't drawn anything yet. There will almost certainly be another pause, but I'm not sure how long it will be yet. I will let you know after 1/19.